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Re: Square pixels in surface/lego plots [message #8602 is a reply to message #8407]

Wed, 26 March 1997 00:00

paulcs
Messages: 6
Registered: March 1997

Junior Member

Bruce,

Have you tried using the Create_view/center_view routine?
IDL: create_view
WAVE: center_view

Bruce Macintosh <bmac@igpp.llnl.gov> writes:

> David Fanning wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Macintosh writes:
>>
>>> Let us say I have a rectangular array that I wish to make a
>>> lego-style surface plot of.
>>>
>>> What's the simplest way to make sure the pixels come out reasonably
>>> square?
>>
>> Download the program ASPECT from my web page and then make
>> a plot with a square aspect ratio, like this:
>>
>> SURFACE, Dist(60,30), /Lego, Position=Aspect(1.0)
>>
>> David
>>

> This turns out not to quite work. David's program does
> calculate (nicely) the plot size to deal with funny-shaped windows,
> but doesn't deal with oddly-shaped arrays going into surface.
> For example,

> figt=dist(60,10)
> window,0,xs=500,ys=500
> surface,figt,/lego,pos=aspect(1.0)

> certainly doesn't produce square lego pixels.

> Any alternative suggestions? This is vexing...If IDL 5 has a
> /iso keyword I'd even be willing to start installing the beta.

> (Please email as well as post replies - my newsfeed is unreliable.)

> Bruce Macintosh
> bmac@igpp.llnl.gov
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Paul C. Sorenson
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		Square pixels in surface/lego plots By: bmac on Fri, 07 March 1997 00:00
		Re: square By: davidf on Fri, 14 March 1997 00:00
		Re: Square pixels in surface/lego plots By: davidf on Sun, 09 March 1997 00:00
		Re: Square pixels in surface/lego plots By: paulcs on Wed, 26 March 1997 00:00
		Re: Square pixels in surface/lego plots By: Bruce Macintosh on Mon, 24 March 1997 00:00

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